Biotechnology: Recent Developments

The technical impetus biotechnology is providing toward concentration in the agricultural inputs sector, and the unique development of high technology biotechnology firms specializing in agricultural applications. The opportunities that biotechnology opened in agriculture were discovered a few years after its applications to medicine were recognized. This lag is due to the fact that molecular biology was largely confined medical schools and non-land-grant universities-institutions that until recently were uninterested in agricultural problems. As the implications of biotechnology for human health care became clear, it was only natural that veterinary applications should also become obvious. The introduction of biotechnology to agriculture will change the agricultural production system and has already set in motion changes in the agricultural research system. The book will prove to be of immense use to senior level graduate, and post-doctoral students and instructors in biotechnology, molecular biology, cell biology, genetics.